Improvement in gang-plows



E. C. EATON.

- GANG-FLOWS.

N0.174,416. Patented March 7.1876.

- the plows.

UNITED STATES.

PATENT- QEEGE.

- ENOCH C. EATON, OF PINOKNEYVILLE, ILLINQIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN GANG-PLOWSS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l74,4l6, dated-March 7, 1876; application filed i February 14, 1876.

To all whom it may concern. p

Be it known that I, ENocH C. EATON, of Piuckneyville, in the county of Perry and State. of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gang-Blows, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 is a side view of my Vimproved device, shown as applied to a gang-plow frame. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the device for raising Fig. 3 is a detail view o'f the device for adjusting the plows, part being broken away to show the construction.

Similarjletters of reference indicate ponding parts.

The object -of this invention is to improve the construction of the gang-plow for which Letters Patent N o. 172,403 were granted to me January 18, 1876, to enable the plows to be more readily raised, and to enable the plows' to be conveniently moved toward or from the land, as may be required.

The inventionrco'nsists in the combination of the post, the brace, the bearing-block,`pro vided with the double shoulders or stops, and the levier provided with the pivoted hooks, to adapt the device for attachment to the frame of a. gang-plow for raising the plows, and in the combination of the block, provided with the slot and the hook, and the clampingscrew, with the axle and the frame of a gangplow, as hereinafter fully described.

A is a post, which is made with a flange upon its lower end, and a bolt-hole through it, to adapt it to be bolted to a cross-bar of the frame above and between the plows. The post A is strengthened in position by a brace, B, the upper end of which is bolted to the upper end of the said post, and its lower end is bolted to the frame. To the upper end of the post A is attached a block, O, to serve as -a i bearing for the forked endof the lever D.

Uponthe opposite sides of the block C are formed double lugs, shoulders, or stops C', to

receive and support the forlrs of the lever D,

corre'- the lower side of which rests upon the axle G.

H is a block, iny the 'lower part of which is formed a slot, b', to receive the axle lGr, and upon its upper end is formed a hook, h2, to hook over the upper side of the side bar F. In the lower end of-the blockH is formed a screw-hole to receive the screwI, the forward Y end of which rests against the lower side of the axle G, so that by turning the said screw in, the side bar F may be drawn down upon and clamped securely to the axle Gr.

By this construction, by loosening the screw I the frame may be slid laterally upon the axle to move the plows toward or from the land, or may be slid forward or back to adjust the plows longitudinally.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new aud desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination of the post A, brace B, bearing-block C, provided with the double shoulders or stops C', and the lever D, provided with the hooks E, to adapt the device for attachment to the frame of a gang-plow for raising the plows, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The oombinationf the block H, provided with the slot h1 and hook h2, and the clamping-screw I, with the axle G and the frame F of a gang-plow, substantially as herein shown and described.

ENOGH C. EATON. Witnesses: v

JOHN B. EATON, E. F. CAMPBELL. 

